It worked on my dad. That thing sits on his counter dusty, dirty and entirely unused - all because it was marketed by Emeril Lagasse

There’s an entire YouTube channel for people like us who remember the little things - Dave’s Archives. Stay hating, hater

Interesting that you say that.

I find Velma to be a parody of scooby doo very similar in spirto Family Guys parodies of Star Wars.

The same humor. The same warping of characters.

Of course taste is subjective. There’s like an emotional weight behind some people’s dislike of this show, though. Something a little extra there.

At the very least I think there’s some piling on happening.

>first 3 episodes of Our Flag Means Death really didn’t do it for me

Our Flag Means Death had enough goodwill/reviews to justify a slog.

I watched the whole thing. First two episodes, then finished the rest last night with some friends.

From my experience watching it after those first two episodes, it was tedious. But I saw a kind of interesting story underneath it. There were elements that were interesting that I really liked. But I felt like it made the audience suffer through an exceptionally unlikable and judgmental protagonist and endless self-congratulatory and witty meta comments to get to the story.

After watching the last 8 last night, it was frustrating. There was interesting character development and arcs and story that you could tell was created by some seasoned creatives. But it was just bogged down a bunch of filler episodes and willful ignorance on behalf of the characters that filled up time away from the characters. This could've been cut down to a feature length and been much more interesting. At one point, it started to get interesting. It was focused on the characters. People were doing things. I was into it. Then moments later I remember there was a scene where Velma commented on flashbacks, and they went into a whole routine about that. I screamed, "nooooo!" My buddy was like, "that was the biggest laugh I had in this show." At one point we started to have an intense moment where the killer showed up. And then they went into a parody rather than pulling us into the story. And I think this is what this show did. Every time you started to care, it found a way to take you out of the moment and make you not care.

By the end, once they were all together solving the mysteries, it was really interesting. But it really made you slog through a lot of tedious self-commentary and endless mean jokes to get to there. And by the end, the story was okay. It was a mystery. I wanted to see it solved. Honestly I wouldn't have minded if they trashed all the jokes and filler and made this a pg-13 show that just focused on the mystery part. That actually would have worked better than this. Of course there were a few jokes that were funny, but maybe once every episode or two. And a few interesting and creative things, like the mean girl brains. Daphne was probably the most interesting character to watch, followed by Fred. Norville was okay once his storyline became about him and his girlfriend. And the title character was exhausting with how awful she was to everyone.

Overall, kinda interesting story, decent performances, and kind of interesting character development that made you suffer through a lot of frustrating comedy and commentary that made the show feel like if Twitter wrote it.

I’m thee minority with you. I’m enjoying it for what is worth. Not without its flaws, but it’s been a fun watch. I do miss Scooby though:(

He was a firefighter?

Yeah I never got Family Guy either. Its like they took the Simpsons, amped up the dumb shit and removed the nice little heart warming moments.

Keep FBoy Island out of your dirty mouth. Fr though, I hate those kinds of shows. My girlfriend watches ALL. OF. THEM. FBoy Island is the only one I actually enjoyed watching with her. They are incredibly self aware and shit on the contestants constantly.

I was surprised by the impressive supporting cast. The show hyped the Mindy angel too hard and unfairly overshadowed an arguably solid roster

I actually think it's fine. Certainly not the worst thing ever, not really top tier animated comedy, not even on HBO Max given Harley Quinn's continued existence. Definitely not worthy of all of the outrage that the show has gotten though.

The problem with the show is that it is at times aggressively mean without being funny which makes it painful to watch at times. I don't think Mindy is a particularly good voice actress either.

Its a pretty bad show.

Or maybe humor is subjective and you think a show that most people do not think is funny, is funny. You're in the minority, there are no culture wars here.

I'm guessing you also find swimming in land fills fun?

As my interest in either of those choices is non existent, nope, my brain is saved.

It's not my cup of tea, but neither is the also unfunny family guy, yet that is somehow super popular.

> Velma is quite possibly the worst show, I personally, have ever seen.

guess you never watched milf manor or fboy island

I JUST WANT RYAN TO NOTICE ME!

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This isn’t the case with Velma but the first 3 episodes of Our Flag Means Death really didn’t do it for me and it took me almost a month to go back to it. I’m so glad I did because the remaining episodes were fantastic, sometimes a show needs to get its footing. Nothing wrong with cutting ties with a show whenever you want but shows can get better as they go.

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By "tiny bit" i'm talking about an out of context meme. Which is not the equivalent of watching anything.

you have literally been replying to comments telling people they can’t have an opinion if they’ve only seen a tiny bit, you’re just being hypocritical, i told you already i give shows a full season, and it was short, i didnt mind

Which you described as the worst show you've ever seen. That sounds like torture to me. I can understand not liking it for 20 minutes, but why continue to not like it for another 3 hours?